How to Work on a Page

  • Click on the Edit This Page button at the top of the page
  • Add text, pictures, videos, files, links to webpages and media.
  • Click Preview to see what the page will look like before saving.
  • Click Save

How To Add Text:

  • Click and type where you want the text to appear.
  • Use the formatting buttons on the toolbar.
  • Click Preview to see what the page will look like before saving

How to Add Pictures, Videos and Files

  • Click the image icon which looks like a painted landscapeimage icon.jpg.
  • Use the 'Upload New File' or 'External Image URL' dialog to select the image or file you wish to put on your page
  • Put the cursor at the position on the page where you wish to put the image or file
  • Double click the image or file to put it on the page
  • You can also add pictures by copying and pasting off of the Internet into the page.
  • Click Preview to see what the page will look like before saving.

How to Link Words to A Web Page

  • Highlight the word you'd like to link to.
  • Click on the Add Link iconlink_tool_icon.JPG in the toolbar to add a new link.
  • Click on External Link and type or paste the web URL

How to Create and Link to a New Page or Link to an Existing Page

  • Highlight the word you'd like to link to.
  • Click on the Add Link icon link_tool_icon.JPGin the toolbar to add a new link.
  • To link to an existing page, pull down and select the page name you would like to link to.
  • To create a new page, either keep the name of the word you highlighted or write a new page name.

How to Embed Media (such as YouTube videos)

  • When editing any Wikispaces page, you'll see a button on the toolbar that looks like a televisionwidget_tool_icon.JPG.
  • Click it, and paste the HTML from any embeddable web service in the box.

How to Undo

  • You can't actually Undo something you just did like in a word processor, but you can revert back to the page before you saved it.
  • Click on 'history' on top of the page you want to revert
  • Select the version you would like to go back to, by clicking on the revision in the date column.
  • Click 'revert to this version' at the top of the page.

How do I add a user icon? How do I change my profile picture?

  • Click My Account to the right of your user name.
  • Click the link Change Picture under the profile picture at the top left.
  • You will be prompted to upload a picture.
  • DO NOT CHANGE YOUR USER NAME OR PASSWORD

How do I add an image or document to a discussion post?

  • To add pictures and files, you need wikitext.

  • The image or file needs to be uploaded and named. For example, let's call the image lava_lamp.jpg.
  • If you want to view it as an image, add it to your post by typing using brackets around the words image:lava_lamp.jpg
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  • If you just wanted to link to the image, so that other users could download it, add it to your post by typing, file: instead of image: